Improvement in shirts



bidet %iatea sind didnt ADOLPHE SALMON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO CAHM, & SALMON,

' OF SAME PLAGE.

Letters Patent No. 111,978, dated February 21, 18.71.

iMPROVEMENT IN SHIRTS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and. making part of the same.

To all whom, 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADOL'PHE SALMON, of the city and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Shirts; and the following is herebv declared to be a correct description ofthe same.

Much dificulty has heretofore been experienced by the manufacturers oi" shirts for the trade in making,

therrit about the neck; in fact, dealers find it almost impossihleto keep such an assortment as will enable them to it all applicants, from the fact that with a given body and sleevemeasurement many different neck-measurements `are required 5 and, again, a person often finds it conducive to Ahis comfort to wear a shirt fitting more closely to the neck in the winter than in the summer, and hence required to be made adj ustable at the collar-band,

llhe object'of-myinvention is to adapt a shirt to be thus adjusted; and, to this end,

It consists in making the shirt with two openings, one upon each shoulder, extending through the collarband, said openings being provided with buttons or equivalent fastening devices, which can be moved forward or backward to eiect the desired adjustment of the length of -the collar-band, and it will be readily seen that by changing the position of the buttons upon each side of the neck at the same time I maintain the front and back collar-buttons diametrically opposite to each other.

In the drawing- Figure 1 represents an elevation ot' my improved shirt;

Figure 2 is a plan ofthe neck and yoke portion; and

Figure 3 is` a section illustrating the manner ot' forming the seam for connecting the bosom to the shirt-body.

(t represents the body of the shirt, and the same maybe of the desired size and shape, with the exception of partsheteafter referred to.

71 is the bosom ofthe shirt, and this is connected to the body at a a b'.

lhe sides a a' of the opening in the body of the shirt are formed straight and parallel, or nearly so, and the part b' is formed rounded or semici-rcular.

At el el the material of the body may be plaited to allow the body to be wider below the bosom.

I connect or join the bosom and body to each other by the seams, more fully illustrated in iig. 3, the fabric a of the body being turned over and laid upon a corresponding portion ofthe bosom b, and the two thicknesses .connected by stitching atie e.

I make the yoke ofthe desired shape to iit the bosom and shirt body, but, instead of making the yoke whole, I form the same of the parts h. It l, the parts h h being connected to the bosom of tlre'shirt and the part Z to the back, so as to form an opening at the neck on both of the shoulders.

The flaps or yoke-pieces h h are connected to the 4yoke l'by buttons Z' or other fastenings, and by varying the position of these buttons or button-holes the size ot' the neck-band or opening may be changed.

rJjhe parts 71- 71, may lap upon the yoke l, or the reverse.

Shirts lnade in this manner are much more convenient to the wearer'beeanse the openings at the shoulders are easily buttoned or unbuttoned, and the shirt can be ironed with greater facility than* those made with a band at the lower end of the bosom.

I do not claim a shirt in which the lower end of the bosom is rounded and a separate band applied between the bosom and the body of the shirt. Neither do I claim a iap at the side of the bosoni,extending to the upper part of the shoulder, where a button'is provided, the same having been used in shirts, jackets, and dresses.

I claim as my invention- A shirt provided with two openings, one upon each shoulder, extending,r through the collar-band in such manner that the shirt maybe passed over the head of the wearer, and that the size of the collar-band may be changed without disturbing the relative position of the collar-buttons upon the back and front of the neck, substantiall y as described. Y

Dated September 22, 1870.

ADOLPHE SALMON.

Witnesses:

(i1-ms. H. SMITH, .i so. T. PIXCKNEY. 

